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How to Make Floam Slime

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Slime experiments can help people develop fine motor skills and can also have a calming effect for some. Much like its predecessor, slime, floam is incredible for tactile sensory play. Its fluidity makes it so that you can use floam to twist, mold, squish, squeeze and even break a chunk off for a friend. 

If you care for an adult with intellectual or developmental disabilities and they’re into a specific shape, animal, kind of fish, or certain colors, your floam recipe can be adapted to suit. In place of or as well as the polystyrene, you can add a whole host of tiny shapes or toys. You can also switch out the school glue for pre-colored or glitter glue. Floam is a great recipe to experiment with. 

To make floam slime you will need:

  • ½ cup of white school glue
  • 2 tsp of Borax
  • 2 large bowls
  • 1 Large zip-seal sandwich bag
  • ½ cup of warm water
  • Another 1/4 cup of warm water (separate to the first ½ cup of water)
  • 1 and 1/3 cups of polystyrene beads
  • Food coloring

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How to make floam slime:

  1. In your large bowl, mix ½ cup of very warm water with the 2 tsp of Borax
  2. Mix until the Borax is entirely incorporated into the mix
  3. In your second bowl, mix ¼ cup of water with ¼ cup of white school glue
  4. Add a few drops of any food coloring and mix well 
  5. Pour the glue mixture into a large sandwich bag (preferably zip-seal)
  6. Add the polystyrene beads to the glue mixture.
  7. Next, add the Borax and water mixture 
  8. Seal the bag and mix it all in and you’re done!


Note: for more fluid floam, use a little less Borax. For more moldable floam, add a little more Borax.

And there you have it, a quick, easy sensory activity to try with adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Click a thumbnail image below for more activities!

About Stephen’s Place

Stephen’s Place is an independent apartment community for adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities, located in Vancouver, WA (7 minutes from Portland, OR).

If you have a loved one with developmental or intellectual disabilities, who is looking for a community to live in, please contact us for more information.